Holes tells the tale of the unfortunate Stanley Yelnats and the characters he encounters at Camp Green Lake. This book is definitely for older students and it is one they will enjoy. A cause and effect activity would go great with Holes. The decision his great-great-grandfather makes effects many ge...
This book is about a boy Named Stanley Yelnats. Stanley is sent of to a detention camp for stealing shoes. He meets a boy named zero there and they become unlikely friends. Stanley and Zero get into some trouble so Zero runs away. Stanley goes after him into the desert. After Zero gets sick from eat...
Holes is the fictional account of the life of Stanley Yelnats IV. The Yelnats family is cursed because of Stanley’s no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. His great great grandfather broke a promise to a friend leaving him with a curse that made life hard for future generations o...
Holes has been on the summer reading list or the reading list of many classrooms. It is a great story about how two families are connected from way back in the past. This book would be great for active reading and making notes and connections throughout the book. It has great vocabulary too. In a se...
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8 Lexile Level: 660L Holes is an exciting story about a young boy who believes he is sent to a camp, but he is actually sent to a remote area where he is told to dig holes all day long. He meets the best friends of his life and after digging a hole one day, uncovers something tha...
Stanley is a 14 year old boy from a poor family that claims his family is affected by a curse from his ancestors. One day Stanley is walking home from school when he suddenly has a pair of shoes in his possession that belonged to a famous basketball player. He is accused of stealing the shoes which ...
Ever felt like you have been in the wrong place at the wrong time? Ever felt unlucky? Well, welcome to the life of Stanley Yelnats- the main character of this children's novel. Stanley's family may be the unluckiest family of all time- all thanks to their dirty, stinking, good-for-nothing grandfathe...
This book could be used for 5th grade. It could be used for whole group discussion as well as listening to the audio book. That would include auditory learners. A lesson for this book could include antonyms and lead into descriptive writing.
I really like this book and I am sure that your fifth grade students will love it too! There are a lot of lessons that you could pull from this book. One could be a family tree. The main character in this book is cursed because of something that happened to his great great grandfather, so this coul...
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